Crackbook

[Bjulvar]

Hey duuude!
You've improved so much in such a short time. Really impressive and inspiring man!

I think that you've reached a really healthy conclussion about studying and such. It's important that you don't copy what you're looking at, but instead observing and understanding it. Like the great Vilppu spams his books with "There are no rules, just tools"
Being unhappy about your skill means that your observationally improving eye is catching up with what you can produce! And it really shows. It's that sexy peak we all have to climb so that we can roll back down :P

I like this night scene with the pirate (I hope!) that you're doing now! I'd check out his hip area, it looks like he lost it in the fire! You could try and trace a skeleton over him on a seperate layer to nail the proportions before moving forward further. That could help you observe his gesture a bit better. Because it looks quite unsure where he's going.

Also, you're always good enough to be original. You could never get rid of your originality even if you wanted to.
Xoxo, keep it up :D